Being that can be understood is languageRichard RortyThis article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. From the LRB letters page: [ 30 March 2000 ] Galen Strawson [ 13 April 2000 ] Jerry Fodor, Alex Fox [ 27 April 2000 ] Michael Haslam [ 18 May 2000 ] Michael Steger, Melvyn Firth. Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007. Other articles by this contributor: How many grains make a heap? · After Kripke To the Sunlit Uplands · Richard Rorty replies to Bernard Williams |